The Chase for NASCAR’s coveted Sprint Cup Series championship is starting to get up to speed, with Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon hot on the bumper of Jimmie Johnson’s leading No. 48. Behind them Kurt Busch is sitting pretty and waiting for his chance, while Tony Stewart is sitting in the pack, just looking for a place to make his move.
The racers did a bit of manoeuvring in Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday on the pavement of Texas Motor Speedway. Mark Martin had the best result of the top three on the day and pulled to within 73 points of …read more

The 2009 Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week celebration in Las Vegas at the beginning of December is set to go, all they’re waiting for is the champion to rise above the crowd of racers at the top of the standings and take control in the last two races. Jimmie Johnson still has the lead by a slim 73 points over Mark Martin after 34 races and two competitions remaining before the champion will be crowned. Things are very close at this point and at least five racers and maybe as many as seven or eight, still have a chance at …read more

The Chase for NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series Championship is heading to the unfriendly confines of Talladega for the next race in the competition, today’s Amp Energy 500. Talladega is a fun track for the fans because it’s a smaller track where the drivers have less room to move around the track and the chances of crashing and banging on the track is absolute.
Jimmie Johnson started on the pole for this race, due to qualifying for the Amp Energy 500 being rained out on Saturday morning and his closest rival for the Sprint Cup Series Championship, Mark Martin, will start next …read more

The Chase continues today as NASCAR’s Sprint Cup darlings will be in Concord, North Caroline on the track of Lowe’s Motor Speedway competing in the NASCAR’s Banking 500. The fifth race of the Chase today’s race is going to probably cut the field of contenders for the Sprint Cup Championship a little more. Currently Jimmie Johnson in the No. 48 Chevrolet leads the Chase by 12 points to his Hendrick Motorsports team mate Mark Martin in the No. 5 Chevrolet.
Jimmie is chasing history and his fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship in a row, while Mark Martin is just trying to …read more

Jimmie Johnson moved into a familiar position at the top of the Chase standings after he came out on top during a three-lap race to the finish in Sunday’s Pepsi 500 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. The win allowed him to move 12 points ahead of Mark Martin, 58 ahead of Juan Montoya and 89 points ahead of Tony Stewart in the race for the Sprint Cup Series championship. This victory is the fifth of the 2009 Sprint Cup Series for Johnson and the 45th Sprint Cup win of his career and his fourth at Fontana, which …read more

The 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is starting to get interesting as Sunday Mark Martin picked up the gauntlet thrown on Dover International Speedway by Jimmie Johnson in the AAA 400 and then proceeded to race his way to a second place finish at Dover that keeps him and the team in the running for the Sprint Cup Series Championship. This victory makes Johnson a definite threat to take the Sprint Cup Series Championship in his No. 48 Chevrolet, which would be the fourth in a row for his team, if he and they can manage to keep the momentum …read more

Sitting just out of the race for the Chase Kyle Busch did everything he could Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway to get himself in a position to make a run for the Chase in the remaining races before the teams and drivers meet for the showdown. Pole-sitter Mark Martin did his best to keep Busch behind him in the race to the Chase by finishing second in the Sharpie 500. He stayed right on Busch’s tail for the last four laps and tried several times to pass but wasn’t able to find the speed and line to make it …read more

“One person’s bad-luck is another racers gain” turned out to be the saying of day on Sunday afternoon, on the pavement of historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway as Jimmie Johnson’s gain turned out to be Juan Montoya’s bad luck. Jimmie Johnson was able to take advantage of a pit-road error by Juan Montoya that resulted in a penalty to Montoya. After restarting on the outside lane with just 24 laps remaining, Johnson was able to stay in front of his teammate and pole sitter for this race, Mark Martin, to take his second consecutive Allstate 400 at the Brickyard and his …read more

The 2009 NASCAR season is on its one week break that traditionally happens every year, so to mark this occasion, we’ve decided to do go over the report card for the 2009 season. We’ll go over a few of the surprises and disappointments on NASCAR’s national levels so far this year.
The biggest disappointment of the year for many will be the disappointing year of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Expectations were high for Dale but he has had a hard time getting his car up to speed all year, but hopefully these are just growing pains and he’ll find his wheels next …read more

50 year old Mark Martin is like a fine wine this year as he won his 2009 series best fourth Sprint Cup competition of the year and the 39th of his long and illustrious racing career Saturday night at Chicago’s 1.5 mile Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. The last man standing on a night of body-slamming and bump-drafting that included seven cautions, the last one with only two laps left in the race due to oil on the track from Kyle Busch’s blown engine. Mark Martin pulled away after a double-file restart after the seventh caution of the night and …read more